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Martyrdom, as a rule, establishes the sincerity of the martyr, never the correctness of his thought. Things are true or false in themselves. — Robert Green Ingersoll

The martyrdom of me. — Chuck Palahniuk

Where there is most feeling, there is the greatest martyrdom. — Leonardo Da Vinci

Can you die for a false idea? Yes. The reason you die is that you believe it's not a false idea — Bangambiki Habyarimana

Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom. — Mahatma Gandhi

The only difference between a suicide and a martyrdom really is the amount of press coverage. — Chuck Palahniuk

Be careful how you suggest things to me. For there is in me a madness which goes beyond martyrdom, the madness of an utterly idle man. — G.K. Chesterton

It's a real job" I said. "Getting promoted to martyrdom is not the top position. — Sam Wazan

A willing heart will believe anything and die for anything — Bangambiki Habyarimana

Martyrdom is a lonely business.
Jukebox — Saira Viola

The way I see it, there is no greater spiritual beauty than fanaticism, of a sort so sincere it can only end in martyrdom. — Isabelle Eberhardt

She appeared to adore Thomas's repugnance to her and to draw it out of him every chance she got as if it added delectably to her martyrdom. — Flannery O'Connor

Most of our informants [incest survivors] remembered their mothers as weak and powerless, finding their only dignity in martyrdom. — Judith Lewis Herman

Christianity has made martyrdom sublime, and sorrow triumphant. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

There are perhaps many causes worth dying for, but to me, certainly, there are none worth killing for. — Albert Dietrich

You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know. — George Eliot

Is the distinction between living for Christ and dying for Him so great? Is not the second the logical conclusion of the first? — Elisabeth Elliot

I mean who the hell do you think you are, exactly? Saint Roland of the Perpetual Martyrdom? — Catherine Jinks

Were the happiness of the next world is as closely apprehended as the felicities of this, it were a martyrdom to live. — Thomas Browne

Martyrdom is often the result of excessive gullibility. — Barbara Mertz

Although prepared for martyrdom, I prefer that it be postponed. — Winston S. Churchill

The Bible is always short on details. Didn't Stephen's innate sense of self-preservation thwart his martyrdom at all? — Hope Jahren

We cherish martyrs not because they died for truth, but because they died for what they believed in and loved — Bangambiki Habyarimana

At the heart of every established religion is one sacred mystery that supports belief and induces fidelity, even to the point of martyrdom. — Stephen King

A love of celibacy and a zeal for martyrdom does not bode well for the future of the sect." - regarding the Essenians — Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield

Martyrdom is meaningless in our age. — John Kennedy Toole

Christ is the meritorious cause of the bestowing of those good gifts, faith and constancy unto martyrdom, upon you. — John Owen

I am as content to die for God's eternal truth on the scaffold as in any other way. — John Mason Brown

To live for oneself is a terrifying prospect; there is comfort in martyrdom ...
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A christian martyrdom is never an accident, for Saints are not made by accident. — T. S. Eliot

Martyrdom does not consist only in dying for one's faith. Martyrdom also consists in serving God with love and purity of heart every day of one's life — St. Jerome

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom. — Karl Kraus

Unjust laws have to be fought ideologically; they cannot be fought or corrected by means of mere disobedience and futile martyrdom. — Ayn Rand

It is well for his peace that the saint goes to his martyrdom. He is spared the sight of the horror of his harvest. — Oscar Wilde

Wherever it pleases God to put man in this world, the Christian must be ready for martyrdom and death. It is only in this way that man learns faith. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot Where the dogs go on with their doggy life — W. H. Auden

I suppose it's something to do with her black-brained religion not to take care of the body. — Evelyn Waugh

A fondness for martyrdom, especially of the verbal variety, is common to the young. — Barbara Mertz

God uses prisons to train people for future roles of leadership or martyrdom. — Charles Colson

Martyrdom is the only path to immortality that requires no talent whatsoever. — George Bernard Shaw

Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Politics, like religion, hold up the torches of martyrdom to the reformers of error. — Thomas Jefferson

A heroic, losing battle! I'm tired of brave men who die. There's nothing pretty about losing. — Warren Eyster

It's the martyrdom of Saint Me. — Chuck Palahniuk

The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins. — Soren Kierkegaard

We must all have the spirit of martyrdom, though we may not all die martyrs. — George Whitefield

May all Christians be found worthy of either the pure white crown of a holy life or the royal red crown of martyrdom. — Cyprian

Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins. — Mark Twain

I have read somewhere that in a totalitarian system martyrdom does better than thought. — Vaclav Havel

Dead anarchists make martyrs, you know, and keep living for centuries. But absent ones can be forgotten. — Ursula K. Le Guin

We would do our theology better if more was at stake in what we said. — John Piper

Any theologian understands martyrdom, but only the martyr experiences the fire. — Robertson Davies

They wrong man greatly who say he is to be seduced by ease. Difficulty, abnegation, martyrdom, death are the allurements that act on the heart of man. — Thomas Carlyle

When does loyalty become martyrdom? — Robert Charles Wilson

Parenthood seems really rewarding ... like martyrdom, but without the glamour. — Dov Davidoff

We will not stop resisting the occupation until liberation or martyrdom. — Muqtada Al Sadr

Be of good comfort, Mr. Ridley, and play the man! We shall this day light such a candle by God's grace, in England, as I trust never shall be put out. — Hugh Latimer

Christ died for our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them? — Jules Feiffer

I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom. — Voltaire

Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief. — Arthur Schnitzler

The only difference between suicide and martyrdom is press coverage. — Chuck Palahniuk

Churches thrive on martyrdom and persecution. — Robert A. Heinlein

Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting. — Bela Lugosi

For all have not the gift of martyrdom. — John Dryden

I have long relied on the comforts of martyrdom. — Barbara Kingsolver

Beyond all the other reasons not to do it, free speech assaults always backfire: they transform bigots into martyrs. — Glenn Greenwald

I do not fear death, for death transforms visionaries into martyrs; converts noble ideas into powerful movements. — Dan Brown

Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning. — Indira Gandhi

Without love everything can be nothing. Does that make me want to love? No. For me, Ignorance is still better than martyrdom. — Ira N. Barin

In the heat of the Russian summer a sleeping car is the most horrible instrument of martyrdom imaginable. — Manfred Von Richthofen

When a heretic wishes to avoid martyrdom he speaks of "Orthodoxy, True and False" and demonstrates that the True is his heresy. — George Bernard Shaw

Do not desire crosses, unless you have borne well those laid on you; it is an abuse to long after martyrdom while unable to bear an insult patiently. — Saint Francis De Sales

Folly loves the martyrdom of fame. — Lord Byron

Loves and Cupids took to flight afraid, and Martyrdom had no such torment in its painted history of suffering. — Charles Dickens

Resolved, when I feel pain, to think of the pains of martyrdom, and of hell. — Jonathan Edwards

For some not to be martyrs is martyrdom indeed. — Leo Rosten

Love makes the whole difference between an execution and a martyrdom. — Evelyn Underhill

Often the contempt of vainglory becomes a source of even more vainglory, for it is not being scorned when the contempt is something one is proud of. — Augustine Of Hippo

They may torture my body, break my bones, even kill me. Then they will have my dead body, but not my obedience. — Mahatma Gandhi

The ANZACs, clinging lost and leaderless to the hillsides, began, as the hot afternoon gave way to grey drizzle, to experience their martyrdom. — John Keegan